Autumn · Leaves · 紅葉 momiji
In autumn a cicada dead Beside the shell that it cast off.
ぬけがらに ならびて死る 秋のせみ
nukegara ni · narabite shinuru · aki no semi
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 333; lines re-broken
Autumn · Leaves · 紅葉 momiji
ぬけがらに ならびて死る 秋のせみ
nukegara ni · narabite shinuru · aki no semi
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 333; lines re-broken